This isn’t a charity 5k or a simulated bull run with people dressed in bull costumes chasing you down the street. This is the real deal, modeled after the famous San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, but without all the time and money required for a trip to Europe!

5. He’s a Former Lawyer

(ABC/Michael Ansell)

The former attorney attended Stonehill College and UConn law school. “I got tired of being between people’s problems,” he said.

He continued, “There’s a lot of paperwork and writing and there’s not a lot of glamour to it. I wasn’t dealing with constitutional issues and I wasn’t changing the world. I wanted to get out.”

Before his foray into extreme sporting events, Dickens was a corporate lawyer on Wall Street.